"The news of LAVENDER as 2014 winner of
the National Indie Excellence Awards for New Age Fiction
is the most exhilarating free-fall imaginable. The
shining culmination of fifteen years of writing has left
me at a loss for words. I didn't know what to do with
recognition, but I did know that the Greats of all time
were thanking me for listening and for not giving up on
riddles that made no sense. I join in their immense
gratitude to Ellen Reid and her team of judges for not
only reading the tome, but understanding the enormity of
the message. Indie provides hope to throngs of inspired
writers who have taken the independent route just
because they were called to write and felt they had no
choice. This is my life. That is my story." - Judy
Gardiner

Here's what the late
psychiatrist and renowned parapsychology researcher
Montague Ullman, M.D. had to say about Lavender in the
introduction to this great work:

"This book is a lengthy parable rooted in facts that
suggest two possible directions our dreams take. The
first is based on the fact that dreaming consciousness
is a natural healing system. There is observational and
laboratory evidence that dreaming is characteristic of
the entire mammalian species and that dreams serve a
survival function of some sort. In humans, our dreams
serve a healing function by confronting us with hidden
truths about ourselves, good or bad, that we have not
yet acknowledged. Since we are creatures capable of
abstract thought, we are able to capture feelings in
metaphors made out of words in poetry, and while we are
asleep and dreaming create images that tell the story.
Both the poem and the dream capture truths about
ourselves that we are not ordinarily capable of
acknowledging in ordinary discourse."